Rural Life
Donegal County Council has announced its first awardee under the pilot Rope Thatch Mentorship Scheme, as David McFerran.
Government grants of up to €20,000 are being made available under a scheme to preserve historic thatched buildings.
Financial support worth up to €3,000 is on offer in Donegal in a bid to reverse the "rate of loss of historic thatch" in the county.
Christopher O’Sullivan TD, has today announced the list of over 650 projects to be awarded funding under the BHIS for 2025.
A grant scheme worth €500,000 to help preserve historic thatched buildings across the country is due to open in the middle of next month.
Master Thatcher, John Brereton, has been thatching since the age of 14 and has claimed that the thatch industry faces an existential threat
A building in Ardfert, Co. Kerry, that had been partly used for housing horses in the past and had served as a chicken house in....
It was not a family connection to the tradition but a childhood curiosity that led Kyran O'Grady to become a thatcher.
